It is the same thing which makes us mad or delirious, inspires us with dread and fear, whether by night or by day, brings us sleeplessness, inopportune mistakes, aimless anxieties, absent-mindedness and acts that are contrary to habit.
HIPPOCRATES…all the most acute, most powerful, and most deadly diseases, and those which are most difficult to be understood by the inexperienced, fall upon the brain.
More Hippocrates Quotes
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There is one common flow, one common breathing, all things are in sympathy.
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He who wishes to be a surgeon should go to war.
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Science begets knowledge; opinion, ignorance.
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The physician must have at his command a certain ready wit, as dourness is repulsive both to the healthy and the sick.
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Life is short, science is long; opportunity is elusive, experiment is dangerous, judgement is difficult.
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Each of the substances of a man’s diet acts upon his body and changes it in some way and upon these changes his whole life depends.
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When in sickness, look to the spine first.
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Those diseases which medicines do not cure, iron cures; those which iron cannot cure, fire cures; and those which fire cannot cure, are to be reckoned wholly incurable.
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Divine is the task to relieve pain
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The physician treats, but nature heals.
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I will give no deadly medicine to any one if asked, nor suggest any such counsel; and in like manner I will not give to a woman a pessary to produce abortion.
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Life is short, the art long.
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I will not give to a woman a pessary to cause abortion.
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Eunuchs do not take the gout, nor become bald.
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Health is the greatest of human blessings.
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